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Like most of the songs on Dylan’s debut, this is his interpretation of a folk standard. This one has been recorded by many artists, from Leadbelly to Woody Guthry to the Animals to Nina Simone. The earliest known recording is by the Appalachian artists Clarence “Tom” Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it for Vocalion Records in 1934. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley.